The Pacific Southwest Research Station of the USDA Forest Service is seeking candidates for a Landscape Population Ecologist for a 2-year research fellowship in partnership with the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education. The fellowship will be located in the PSW Conservation of Biological Diversity Program and stationed in Davis, California. The fellowship will focus on understanding the effects of biotic and abiotic factors on the distribution and demography of the California spotted owl in the Sierra Nevada. Primary factors of interest include vegetation characteristics and management, wildfire, burned forests, and climate. The incumbent will work with a team of ecologists and wildlife biologists to analyze and synthesize results from three long-term California spotted owl demogr